I posted in here earlier saying I am undecided about it. Well today's study lesson was Mark chapter 12 which ended up seemingly providing some insight into this topic. Wrote a blog about it on here by basically the chapter seems to make it important to know that God is One and there is only One God and notes the distinction between the two. What it says about the Trinity I haven't quite decided but it definitely gave me something to think about.
Love as God describes that Biblically, is a combination of ideas. When you read all there is about how God defines that concept, then slowly you can see that what is said about that word, being primarily an indescribable emotion, is actually Doing The Will of The One you love, in Biblical terms, and therefore it is the way God describes love, in action.
If you recall from everything you have heard in church, or read, or have heard from friends in church, no where, is Doing The Will, any definition of love, that you know of. Yet, Biblically that is the definition of Love, as God uses it.
The two greatest commandments become this, if that definition is right:
1. Do The Will of God, With All Your Heart, And With All Your Might.
2. Do The Will of Your Neighbor As You Do The Will OF Yourself.
For in these rests all the law of the prophets.
Have you ever seen that before? I say no. Is it wrong?
The point here, for me for you to think about is this. From my reference point, I know the Bible is Real, and that is unusual. I also know that God is Real, and that is unusual. Some of the tools I used for that, was a multiplicity of Bibles (up to eight), everything everyone said, and a sincere need and desire to know if the Bible was real of fake.
When I was done, actually objectively looking at That Book, it took something ordinary to settle the issue. It took tests. Yet, I could not do those tests, until I was at the point where, I could prove nothing that was in the Bible is or was wrong. I also went outside of my sphere of influence, and sought help outside to see if anyone else had proved that book wrong, after I found out, that I could not do that. It helped me to find that no one else had either.
Only after all the above was done for me, and I was stuck, that the idea of tests, (called controlled experiments in my field), might give me a clear answer, whether or not that book was real. THEY DID, BUT, controlled experiments do not always result in clear answers. THESE DID, but I was not expecting that, as controlled experiments are totally objective. I could have gotten no answer. I could have been just as confused as I was before about the Bible.
Now, why that for me. It is how God built me. What is the method you will use, it is the method God chooses for you, and it is how He built you, But, it is also in His TIMEFRAME, when you will know this or that about Him.
I am stuck just like the rest of you, in waiting on God, for this and for that. He answers but in His Way and in His Timing, and I know why I think.
So, why have I written all this to you. It is to let you know a single passage about anything in The Bible can be misused, some of the time. To get around that problem, you must know all the passages on a subject. Lacking a total understanding of anything, is an act of humility. It is to let it go. It is not to demand from God. It is not to make the mistake of deciding what is true or false or even if God is Real or Not, because of how quick He answers. It is not. That is how a dog's merit is measured. God is not our pet, like as dog. He is not measured by performing for us. He is measured, by Who He Is. ~I am who I shall prove to be~ and if He proves to be The Trinity fine, and if you find He is not by proof, then He is not.
...Katerina.,